Lake Mead Since 2000

[odanny]

Thanks to Republican (and Joe Manchin) interference, we continue to fiddle while Rome burns.

Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to just 27 percent of capacity.

The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico. It now also provides a stark illustration of climate change and a long-term drought that may be the worst in the U.S. West in 12 centuries.

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[DukeU]

Looks like someone's plan has failed, they should do better.

You can't supply but so many people out of one lake. Duh.

 

[fncceo]

Lake Mead is an artificial lake, created by damming the Colorado River in 1931 ... it is NOT a natural water catchment.

In 1931, the population of the area surrounding the lake was 25,000 people ... 8/10th of those were transient workers brought there specifically to build the dam.

Today, that same man-made water supply services a population of 3 Million --- a three percent increase just from the year before.

If you increase the amount of population that uses a fixed water supply by 12,000% and the water level drops ... you can't blame that on Gaia, or Republicans, or Explicit Rap lyrics ...

... you're simply using more water than you have.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Thanks to Republican (and Joe Manchin) interference, we continue to fiddle while Rome burns.

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Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to just 27 percent of capacity.

The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico. It now also provides a stark illustration of climate change and a long-term drought that may be the worst in the U.S. West in 12 centuries.

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How much higher would the water level be if Mancin had been replaced by Al Gore?

Show your work.

 

[Yarddog]

Thanks to Republican (and Joe Manchin) interference, we continue to fiddle while Rome burns.

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Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to just 27 percent of capacity.

The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico. It now also provides a stark illustration of climate change and a long-term drought that may be the worst in the U.S. West in 12 centuries.

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We havnt built any new resivours since the 70's In California. That has mainly been Democrat resistance and short sightedness at fault. Los Angeles is going to take the water from wherever they can and that is about 35 % Colorado river water. This has NOTHING to do with the people you mention.

 

[daveman]

Thanks to Republican (and Joe Manchin) interference, we continue to fiddle while Rome burns.

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Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to just 27 percent of capacity.

The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico. It now also provides a stark illustration of climate change and a long-term drought that may be the worst in the U.S. West in 12 centuries.

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You're blaming the wrong people.

As Lake Mead shrinks, California uses more than its share of water​

As water managers in Nevada and elsewhere fight to keep Lake Mead as full as possible, an irrigation district in California has significantly overdrawn its Colorado River allotment over the past three years.

The Imperial Valley Irrigation District is the single largest water user on the Colorado, but it is “isolating itself” with its actions, said Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

She called the situation “very serious” and said the irrigation district’s behavior has “the flavor of arrogance.”


Particularly galling to Mulroy was the irrigation district’s decision to send billions of gallons of river water into the Salton Sea to freshen the brackish inland lake in 2010, just as Lake Mead was nearing an all-time low.

She called the move and the rationale behind it “preposterous.”

As usual, Democrats are just taking what they want and **** everybody else.

 

[DukeU]

Lake Mead is an artificial lake, created by damming the Colorado River in 1931 ... it is NOT a natural water catchment.

In 1931, the population of the area surrounding the lake was 25,000 people ... 8/10th of those were transient workers brought there specifically to build the dam.

Today, that same man-made water supply services a population of 3 Million --- a three percent increase just from the year before.

If you increase the amount of population that uses a fixed water supply by 12,000% and the water level drops ... you can't blame that on Gaia, or Republicans, or Explicit Rap lyrics ...

... you're simply using more water than you have.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia​

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Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, 24 mi (39 km) east of Las Vegas. It is the largest reservoir in the US in terms of water capacity. Lake Mead provides water to the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada as well as some of Mexico, providing sustenance to nearly 20 million people and large areas of farmland.[1]​

 

[airplanemechanic]

Hmm, the democrats are in full control of the house, the senate and the white house and somehow this lake in the middle of the desert going dry is Republicans fault.

That's not the entire lake, that's just one piece of it. Why not show the entire ******* lake?

 

[BuckToothMoron]

Lake Mead is an artificial lake, created by damming the Colorado River in 1931 ... it is NOT a natural water catchment.

In 1931, the population of the area surrounding the lake was 25,000 people ... 8/10th of those were transient workers brought there specifically to build the dam.

Today, that same man-made water supply services a population of 3 Million --- a three percent increase just from the year before.

If you increase the amount of population that uses a fixed water supply by 12,000% and the water level drops ... you can't blame that on Gaia, or Republicans, or Explicit Rap lyrics ...

... you're simply using more water than you have.

The allocation from the Colorado River was done by the 1922 water pac. it was over allocated from the beginning and the issue has been well known for decades but ignored by the States of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, NewMexico, Arizona, Nevada and California. Climate change has only brought the inevitable sooner perhaps.

 

[petro]

Environmentalists wouldn't allow such a reservoir to be built today as it would forever alter the natural environment.

 

[petro]

Perhaps the Casino's of Vegas should shut off those fountains for awhile?


Seems strange in a dry desert environment to see such an extravagant waste of resources.

 

[odanny]

Perhaps the Casino's of Vegas should shut off those fountains for awhile?


Seems strange in a dry desert environment to see such an extravagant waste of resources.

Las Vegas could be the model for water conservation that the rest of the drought stricken West should follow. They are one city that is taking climate change and the desertification of the West seriously.

 

[petro]

Las Vegas could be the model for water conservation that the rest of the drought stricken West should follow. They are one city that is taking climate change and the desertification of the West seriously.

Hilarious.
Last time I was there water fountains were flowing, Casino's were open to the street with air conditioning blaring and that city is more lit up than any other city besides New York.
Model of conservation my ass.

 

[odanny]

Hilarious.
Last time I was there water fountains were flowing, Casino's were open to the street with air conditioning blaring and that city is more lit up than any other city besides New York.
Model of conservation my ass.

I totally understand your skepticism, and it is warranted. I'm not saying that the fountains are not wasteful, just that the city is taking water conservation more seriously than most cities in the West, and their underlying goals to stop wasting water is showing favorable and actionable results.

The fountains lose the equivalent of 600 swimming pools worth of water every year to evaporation, which does not compare to the 42 million visitors who use an average of 63 gallons of water per day. Something has to be done to slow the usage elsewhere, and that is where Las Vegas is making big changes.

Out of necessity those fountains will someday, probably sooner than later, be dry.

https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1180&context=glj

Las Vegas becomes unlikely model for water conservation

Officials are conserving water in Las Vegas by removing what they call non-functional grass.

www.cbsnews.com

Enjoy the waterpark, other things waste more water in Vegas

Despite being in the midst of the longest sustained drought we've ever seen, and on the verge of a federally declared water shortage, every day in Las Vegas water is used for play.

www.ktnv.com

 

[ozro]

My grandfather gave me a book published before I was born that predicted this situation, and the situation we now have with other dams:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/26662093-big-dam-foolishness-the-problem-of-modern-flood-control-and-water-stora#

That same author also wrote other books about ecology, sociology and politics.
I include his most famous quote here:
"

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."

Elmer T Peterson

Suck when them chickens come home to roost don't it? Sadly, things won't get any better.

 

[ding]

Thanks to Republican (and Joe Manchin) interference, we continue to fiddle while Rome burns.

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Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to just 27 percent of capacity.

The largest reservoir in the United States supplies water to millions of people across seven states, tribal lands, and northern Mexico. It now also provides a stark illustration of climate change and a long-term drought that may be the worst in the U.S. West in 12 centuries.

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That's what happens in an interglacial cycle, dummy.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

They build huge cities in the desert and wonder why they dont have enough water.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Thanks to Republican (and Joe Manchin) interference, we continue to fiddle while Rome burns.

So Joe Manchin has been out there with a pale for 20 years scooping out water, huh?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

So Joe Manchin has been out there with a pale for 20 years scooping out water, huh?

pail

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Perhaps the Casino's of Vegas should shut off those fountains for awhile?


Seems strange in a dry desert environment to see such an extravagant waste of resources.

It seems strange because you don't know what you're talking about.

Are Resorts Draining Lake Mead?

Are Las Vegas resorts, often made up of thousands of guestrooms responsible for the declining water levels in the Lake Mead Reservoir? The answer may surprise you.

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